Misery Called Life wrote:Red Chief wrote:In my view, Tunisia and Egypt were the first but not last victims of the World crisis. It must have been Greece or if EU had not granted the financial support. There are a lot of countries in the World, which cannot find own place between China and the West and don't have enough natural resources to survive in hard days.
On the other hand uncontroled birth rate makes it impossible to avoid hunger without import of food. Wise Den Xiaoping recognized self-sufficiency of food and moved in the both direction at the beginning of his reforms.
True! Stability of countries around the world will ultimately boil down to food security.
The confirmation of this statement I found in the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) report:
Food inflation is among the factors blamed for the turmoil in Egypt and the overthrow of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Full story is here. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/02/0 ... rices.html
It's not news as all news agencies mentioned this reason for Tunisia at least.
In addition to the world crunch there were severe weather conditions in the world's main wheat exporters in 2010 which pushed prices up:
Traders also are concerned about the quality and quantity of the global wheat supply, particularly after devastating floods damaged Australia's crop on top of last year's drought in Russia and Ukraine and flooding in Canada.
Russia for instance banned export of weat in 2010-2011.
